Ian McHarg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Let us green the earth, restore the earth, heal the earth....
-- Ian McHarg

#Earth #Green #Heal
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
-- Ian McHarg

#Men #Earth #Blind
The most important issue of the 21st century will be the condition of the global environment.
-- Ian McHarg

#Issues #Important #Environment
It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.
-- Ian McHarg

#Order #Environmental #Attention
We are the bullies of the earth: strong, foul, coarse, greedy, careless, indifferent to others, laying waste as we proceed, leaving wounds, welts, lesions, suppurations on the earth body, increasingly engulfed by our own ordure and, finally, abysmally ignorant of the way the world works, crowing our superiority over all life.
-- Ian McHarg

#Strong #Bully #Leaving

Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.
For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.
I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
American love â€” like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.
Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.
Do you think God would heal an adulterer? Well I believe if God would save an adulterer, then He would heal one.
The physician heals, Nature makes well.
Slowly, I've come to realize That I cannot heal my past And that fearing the unavoidable future Is pointless
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

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